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  Japan Today - Discussion Board - Japan's Leading International News Network   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
About 350 miles from Pingfan (the Germ Warfare Complex in Manchuria) was the prisoner of war camp at Mukden where 1,485 American, British and Australian POWs were sent in November, 1942.
About 600 were killed this way, the bodies of the victims cremated in three large ovens the same way as those used in the Nazi death camps, and their ashes then dumped into the nearby Sungari River.
Pingfan had 4,500 flea breeding machines which produced 100 million infected fleas every few days.
www.japantoday.com /e/?content=bbs&order=msg&author=Tony&page=3   (6350 words)

  
 Germ war victims raise China’s fury - Alliance to Preserve the History of WWII in Asia - Los Angeles | Forums | News
But it was another 40 years before she finally discovered the ghastly end he met in experiments conducted at Unit 731’s laboratory and prison complex in Pingfan, a village 20 miles southeast of Harbin.
Pingfan was the base for Dr Shiro Ishii, a chemist described by his Chinese victims and their relatives as Japan’s equivalent of Josef Mengele.
Daniel Barenblatt, an American expert on Pingfan, has described how prisoners infected with syphilis were forced to have sex.
www.alpha-la.org /link.asp?TOPIC_ID=113   (885 words)

  
 Unit 731 - A Half Century of Denial
Unit 731's sprawling headquarters were at Pingfan - completed with airport, railway stations and dungeons - on the outskirts of Harbin.
Retreating Japanese troops burned down most of Pingfan in an attempt to destroy evidence, but even today, a local factory still fires up in incinerator where victims of medical experiments - at least 3,000 men, women and children - were disposed of.
Even so, reverence for the emperor's brother, Prince Mikasa, learned of the human experiments when visiting Pingfan in 1943, and it is almost inconceivable that the emperor, who signed the order founding Unit 731, was unaware of the true nature of the work.
www.technologyartist.com /unit_731   (879 words)

  
 [3.0] A History Of Biological Warfare (1)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
One Japanese veteran who was a technician at the Pingfan site recalled there were many doctors and professors there, giving it something of the air of a university medical research facility, but noted that it was in fact the opposite: "Here, they were trying to find ways to kill people."
Eventually, Pingfan was believed to have been capable of producing tonnes of pathogens every month.
Researchers at Pingfan bred plague-infested rats in quantity and then gathered the fleas from the rats.
www.vectorsite.net /twgas3.html   (3919 words)

  
 Diseases, Epidemics, and Historical Periods   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Pingfan facility was able to produce 300 kilograms of viable plague germs every month, Yersinia pestis.
The remaining human subjects were slaughtered by the fleeing Japanese guards and Pingfan was abandoned with most of the complex intentionally set on fire to destroy particularly damaging information.
A plague epidemic in the Harbin and Pingfan area occurred almost immediately after the abandonment of Pingfan.
scarab.msu.montana.edu /historybug/insects_as_bioweapons.htm   (3915 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Rivalling in size Germany’s notorious Auschwitz-Burkenau death camp, Unit 731’s facility was located at, Pingfan, Manchuria.
Thereafter members of Unit 731 made their way home, after first destroying the Pingfan facility and other sites, as best they could.
Despite claims that all, or most of the - all important - records were destroyed in the clean-up exercise, it is thought that many were buried by Ishii, for later retrieval.
www.deepblacklies.co.uk /unit731_pt1_pr.htm   (1973 words)

  
 totse.com | A History of Chemical & Biological Warfare   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
General Ishii's bioweapons research staff at Pingfan kept up their efforts until the very end of the war.
In fact, the Japanese had even developed a technology that could have allowed them to conduct biological attacks on the United States, in the form of balloons that were released into the jet stream to float across the Pacific to North America.
The Pingfan complex was demolished ahead of the advancing Soviets, and Unit 731's most incriminating records were destroyed.
www.totse.com /en/bad_ideas/guns_and_weapons/167129.html   (20306 words)

  
 COSMIC BASEBALL ASSOCIATION Personal Cosmic Game Report
Biological warfare, the use of disease as a weapon of war, begins in the 1930s.
Pingfan has become notorious in the annals of biological warfare.
In October 1940 elements of Unit 731 tested the feasibility of biological weaponry when they air-dropped fleas infected with the bacteria Yersenia pestis ("the plague") over Ningpo, China.
www.cosmicbaseball.com /biochem.html   (638 words)

  
 Biological Weapons Program - Japan
Open air testing on prisoners was conducted at the the officially named "Water Purification Unit 731" at Pingfan near Harbin, a remote, desolate area on the Manchurian Peninsula.
Pingfan's 6 square kilometers housed more than 150 buildings, including administrative buildings, laboratories, workers dormitories, and barracks.
By 1945, the Japanese program had stockpiled 400 kilograms of anthrax to be used in a specially designed fragmentation bomb.
www.fas.org /nuke/guide/japan/bw   (631 words)

  
 Pingfan - Freepedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Pingfan was the headquarters of the Japanese Biological Warfare Unit 731 during World War II.
This page was last modified 08:22, 8 November 2005.
Here you can find the list of authors of this article.
en.freepedia.org /Pingfan.html   (94 words)

  
 The Japan Times Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Showa Emperor signed a decree establishing Unit 731 in occupied Manchuria, behind multiple barbed-wire fences 20 km south of Harbin in the village of Pingfan.
But the Soviet Consulate in Harbin quickly realized that something strange was going on, said Permyakov, who worked in the consulate during the war.
Suddenly work crews built and paved a road to Pingfan, and it was crowded with the cars of officers.
www.japantimes.co.jp /cgi-bin/geted.pl5?eo20010605a1.htm   (2928 words)

  
 Li Pingfan Online
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There can't be a store anywhere in the world that can touch AllPosters' vast database of posters and fine prints.
All images and text on this Li Pingfan page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted.
www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/li_pingfan.html   (121 words)

  
 Hot Buttered Funk Blog Archive - 11/16/2004: "'Friendship is friendship. History is history.'"
Japan’s Unit 731 was a Biological Warfare facility during World War II.
Located in Pingfan, Manchuria the Japanese would use Chinese, Russian and Americans to perform biological experiments.
The film is one of the first to tell the story and to this day holds the best account and graphic imagery of an atrocious history fueled for power.
www.hotbutteredfunk.com /gmarchive/00000584.php   (389 words)

  
 L’unité 731 japonaise de guerre biologique
Le 30 juin 1938, l’armée de Kwantung a commencé à préparer un nouveau cantonnement pour l’unité de Shiro Ishii, à; Pingfan, à vingt-quatre kilomètres au Sud de Harbin.
Trois mille personnes ont été sacrifiées à Pingfan.
Après avoir effacé les preuves de ce qui s’était passé là, le personnel de Pingfan a été évacué en Corée, au Sud de Séoul.
www.interet-general.info /archives/retenez-moi.com/sciences/unite731.html   (4827 words)

  
 www.1939-45.org / Synthèse sur les crimes de guerre japonais   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Dans le Mandchoukuo (l'état fantoche créé par les japonais en Chine avec à sa tête Pou Yi, le dernier empereur de Chine), à Pingfan, dans le sud de Harbin, se trouvait un grand centre.
A 500 km de Pingfan, existait le camp de Moukden : un camp de 1.485 prisonniers de guerre alliés.
Les résultats étaient ensuite envoyés à Pingfan pour analyse.
www.1939-45.org /articles/syntjap.htm   (911 words)

  
 MHz Rate Imaging of Boundary Layer Transition on Elliptic Cones   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Working with the Applied Physics Group, some of the most recent laser diagnostics for hypersonic flow are being utilized to produce previously unobtainable views of the boundary layer.
A "pulse-burst" Nd:YAG laser system has been developed by Pingfan Wu which allows repetition rates up to 1 MHz.
A high-speed prototype camera developed by Princeton Scientific Instruments is able to capture a 30-image "movie" of the flow.
www.princeton.edu /~gasdyn/Research/EllCone_FRS.html   (419 words)

  
 The Japan Times Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Two months later, he was ordered to join Unit 731 of the Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification Department of the Kwantung Army and was shipped off to its sprawling headquarters in the city of Pingfan, just outside Harbin in Japan-controlled northeast China.
It was much better than life in Pingfan."
In the camp, Shinozuka began to reflect on his actions with Unit 731.
www.wiccanweb.ca /redirect.php?sid=6189   (1710 words)

  
 Platinum today: Chinese automotive market to ride out rate rise
The domestic car market maintains a stable track," she told China Daily.
Qian Pingfan, an industry researcher of the Development Research Centre of the State Council, agreed, saying the rate increase would "not have a big impact on the domestic car market".
It is estimated that around ten per cent of new car sales in the country are funded through loans.
www.platinum.matthey.com /media_room/1099566004.html   (243 words)

  
 AII POW-MIA Unit 731
Recently, by combining the surviving documents of Unit 731 and the Japanese government, accounts of surviving POWs and civilians, and the accounts of surviving members of Unit 731, we are beginning to recognize the despicable level of barabarism that was engaged in these horrorific places...
Pingfan and Mukden, Manchuria, and even in Japan itself.
The Unit 731 section of this site, has been separated purposefully.
www.aiipowmia.com /731/731caveat.html   (477 words)

  
 topics: History
In Europe, the war ended with the surrender of Germany on 8 May 1945 (V-E and Victory Days), but continued in Asia until Japan surrendered on 15 August 1945 (V-J Day).
Approximately 57 million people died as a result of the war, including acts of genocide such as the Holocaust, the Rape of Nanking, and General Ishii Shiro's Unit 731 experiments in Pingfan.
As a case of total war, it involved the "home front" and bombing of civilians to a new degree.
topics.blogspot.com /2005/06/history.html   (6380 words)

  
 EMBOJ -- Table of Contents (January 1 1997, 16 [1])   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Bronchial hyperreactivity, increased endotoxin lethality and melanocytic tumorigenesis in transgenic mice overexpressing platelet-activating factor receptor
Shaofan Liu, Pingfan Liu, Ana Borras, Talal Chatila, and Samuel H. Speck
Cyclosporin A-sensitive induction of the Epstein-Barr virus lytic switch is mediated via a novel pathway involving a MEF2 family member
embojournal.npgjournals.com /content/vol16/issue1/index.shtml   (689 words)

  
 Stella X. Yu - Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Stella X. Yu and Yuanlie Lin and Pingfan Yan
Xingxing Yu and Yuanlie Lin and Pingfan Yan
International Symposium on Operations Research and Applications, Beijing, China, 1996
www.cs.berkeley.edu /~stellayu/mdp.html   (114 words)

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